Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
We Met Like This
Ladies in Hating
Hot Desk: A Novel
All This Could Be Yours
Girl Next Door
Love Walked In
Role Play (Off the Books #1)
The Librarians
With Stars in Her Eyes
Say It Out Loud
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
It's Me They Follow
Epilogue to a Christmas Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #11)
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
Beach Read
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Ghostwriter
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
By Any Other Name
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
The Book of Lost Hours
The Secret Book Society
Seduction Theory
The Story She Left Behind
The Quiet Librarian
The Dead Husband Cookbook
Writers & Lovers
Not in My Book
The Bookstore Keepers (Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, #3)
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldMatilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 512 voters
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Traveling Libraries
113 books — 21 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerThe Exorcist by William Peter BlattyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson’Salem’s Lot by Stephen        King
Paperbacks from Hell
569 books — 55 voters
Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeThief of Lies by Brenda DrakeThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeInkspell by Cornelia Funke
Book-Jumping or Book-Travelling
158 books — 93 voters

Book Lust by Nancy PearlWhen Books Went to War by Molly Guptill ManningHowards End Is on the Landing by Susan         HillThe Novel Cure by Ella BerthoudEx Libris by Anne Fadiman
Books Recommending Books
149 books — 44 voters
Library Lion by Michelle KnudsenThe Library by Sarah StewartThe Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians by Carla  MorrisThe Library Dragon by Carmen Agra DeedyLibrary Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Picture Books about the Library!
248 books — 194 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library
Fahrenheit 451
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Book Lovers
The Reading List
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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